RMA 211 (P237872)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 211 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237872 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [If Ve]nus becomes visible in Shebat (XI): [the harvest] of the land will prosper. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If the Worm star is very massive: there will be mercy and peace in the land. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | — Venus stands inside of Anunitu. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66– | If Venus becomes visible inside the Field star: there will be rains from the sky and floods from the springs; the harvest of the Westland will prosper; abandoned pastures will be resettled. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | If Venus kee[ps] a stable position: the days of the ruler will be long; there will be truth in the land. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | From Aplaya of Borsippa. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}dil]-⸢bat⸣ ina {iti}ZIZ₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | [BURU₁₄] KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | 1 {⸢mul}tul⸣-tum gup-pu-šat | |
| 4 | ARHUŠ u SILIM-mu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 5 | {mul}dil-bat ina ŠA₃ {mul}a-nu-ni-tum GUB-ma | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina ŠA₃ {mul}AŠ.GAN₂ IGI-ir | |
| 7 | A.AN-ME ina AN-e A.KAL-ME ina ⸢IDIM⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BURU₁₄ KUR—MAR.TU{ki} SI.SA₂ | |
| 2 | na-mu-u₂ ŠUB-ME TUŠ-[MEŠ] | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}dil-bat KI.GUB-sa₃ rak-[sat] | |
| 4 | UD-MEŠ NUN GID₂.DA-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 5 | kit-tu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 6 | ša₂ {1}DUMU.UŠ-a DUMU BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
Sources & licences
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